Photographic inspiration

Photographic inspiration and aspiring photography

The photography, in its etymological sense, means the reproduction (written form / drawing) of the light (photo).

Before that the photography exists, the painter Vermeer, used the principles of » camera obscura » * to reproduce his subjects.
Its paintings, considered as the master’s degree of the light and the depth of field, are often compared with the technique of the photography.

Today, numerous photographers inspired by the works of the master, reproduce images in twilight, which sublimated with the photographic post-treatment softwares such as Lightroom and Photoshop, remind us his paintings.
The techniques of the drawing, the painting and the photography are thus inseparable because they have for end to reproduce an escaped moment, a composition, in a frame.

In the photographic clichés which I propose, we find bright colors, which are bound the some in other, similar to the pallets of painting I liked using child.
But also those whom I discovered in Gustav Klimt’s works the allegorical universe of which, in the plentiful colors, approaches the themes of the life, through the translucent nudity of his feminine characters.

Later, the photography came to me, thanks to a small camera my father offered me.
Of journeys in images, photographs settled down in my life as witness of horizons and distant cultures which I discovered, to become then a passion.

Over time, photographers of renamed, inspired my shots and fed my craze for the journey :

Finally, the photographer Jimmy Nelson who immortalized the tribal and native cultures on borrowed time in his photographic project : « Before they pass away ».

Then, beyond the borders, the photography tells and testifies of the humanity, in a universal and opened up language. In a breath of escape, the spirit takes back its freedom and leads to the expression of the art.

« The free creation is appearance. It is dawn, birth, unprecedented beginning.

It tears away the being from the nothingness ».

Gaston Bachelard (1884 – 1962, poet and philosopher)

* « Camera obscura » (darkroom) : invention which goes back to the XI century, by an Arabic scientist.

The darkroom was used by numerous painters of the Italian Renaissance before Vermeer, among whom: Leonardo da Vinci and Caravaggio who has been the precursor in its use by developing the twilighted technic.